Where rod engines fear to tread. Cass Shay #5 crests the hill at the Lower Switchback and will shortly take on the 6.3% uphill grade that you see on the right....in reverse....as she works ... (more)

Durbin to Cass by rail. Cass Shay #5 runs southbound toward Cass on the old C&O Durbin Branch, with a set of empty log flats. Can you really go from Durbin to Cass by rail? Well, not jus... (more)

Cass Scenic Railroad Shay No. 5 leads the first photo excursion along the former Chesapeake & Ohio Greenbrier line in more than 30 years. The locomotive, which has been disguised as a former Green... (more)

The West Virginia Great Train Race... An annual tradition at the Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad, the Great Train Race is a public event that consists of a race between diesels and stea... (more)

And so a new era begins... Crews at the Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad have spent much of 2016 rebuilding a section of former C&O main between Cass, W.Va., and Durbin, W.Va., that was ... (more)

The Cass Scenic Railroad deadline on a warm humid Summer night.

Three Shays pause in the engine servicing area during Cass Scenic Railroad;s 1981 railfan weekend. Shay number 3 in the center went back to the west coast in 1996, now residing at the City of Prin... (more)

Smoke from the Cass Scenic Railroad's #2 Shay appears to pigtail as the train rounds the bend during a charter trip.

Cass Scenic Railroad's #2 Shay passes through Old Spruce heading in the direction towards Bald Knob.

A watchful eye keeps track of the Cass Scenic Railroad's #2 Shay as it approaches the first of two switchbacks on a run to Bald Knob.